Tile-Ippokratis: The Experience of an Ehealth Platform for the Provision of Health Care Services in the Island of Chios and Cyprus

Table 3

Perceived benefits of Tile-Ippokratis services.

		Type of users
		Physicians	Patients
Scenario	Home care	Good alternative for avoiding frequent visits to the hospital; Long term-appreciation of patient’s situation—useful in cases of emergency; Shifting of the location of care, out of hospitals	Increased sense of safety; Avoidance of unnecessary visits to the hospital; Increased sense of “always connected” with their doctors
	Rural health center	Sense of “team” work between remote located medical personnel; Time savings from patients’ transportation to Skylitsio General Hospital and other large hospitals; Increased sense of safety because of the second opinion choice; Low-cost ehealth services. One ehealth system for many patients; Ensuring continuity of healthcare and patient followups	Larger number of patients own their electronic personal record; Increased positive attitude against ICT technologies; Promotion of behavioural modification, goal setting, prevention rather than treatment and adjusting to living with a chronic disease improving patients' feeling of safety; Assist patients to self-manage their chronic condition and enhance supportive measures to promote self-management in the long term